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    "localId": "520352",
    "label": "Teacup from Teacups with Chinese Landscapes",
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    "id": "520352",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Teacup from Teacups with Chinese Landscapes",
    "description": "Originally from a set of 12, each of these 11 <em>sencha</em> teacups has a different landscape wrapped around the body, giving individual cups their own engaging narrative. These paintings are comfortingly familiar in their formulaic qualities, known to any casual fan of ink painting; they are also enjoyable in the way the narratives are revealed as one manipulates the cups. They would be perfect as conversation pieces for a tea gathering. <br><br>Four of the cups focus on travelers approaching residences. Two have a person crossing a bridge as their central motif: one man has a backpack, and the other, a cloth-wrapped bundle hanging from a pole slung over his shoulder. Another cup depicts a pair of friends gathered together on rock platforms. A single cup shows a man carrying a furled banner toward a pavilion. The remaining three cups feature people riding in boats: two have literati passengers, and the third is occupied by a fisherman. <br><br>Seifu Yohei IV’s training as a painter with Tanomura Shosai (1847–1909), an adoptive son of Tanomura Chokunyu, his father’s painting teacher, is evident in the details of the tiny worlds created on the cups.",
    "date": "1914–46",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.202.7",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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        "Ceramic"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 4 x 6.6 cm (1 9/16 x 2 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)"
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    "accession": "2022.202.7"
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    "tec": "One from a set of eleven teacups; porcelain with underglaze blue",
    "tombstone": "Teacup from Teacups with Chinese Landscapes, 1914–46. Seifū Yohei IV (Japanese, 1872–1951). One from a set of eleven teacups; porcelain with underglaze blue; overall: 4 x 6.6 cm (1 9/16 x 2 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.202.7",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "didYouKnow": "Seifū Yohei IV produced many works for use in Chinese-style tea gatherings called <em>sencha</em>.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Maezaki, Shinya and Sinéad Vilbar. <em>Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 58, pp. 146–147"
        }
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    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.202.7",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:08:21.546000",
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    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "One from a set of eleven teacups; porcelain with underglaze blue",
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        "Asian (from 1900 to present)"
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